The film is about a mtally challged man wrongfully imprisoned for murder, who builds fridships with the harded criminals in his cell, who in return help him see his daughter again by smuggling her into the prison.
The movie is based on the real-life story of a man who was tortured and pleaded guilty under duress to the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl on September 27, 1972 in Chuncheon before being finally exonerated in November 2008.
Ye-sung is a lawyer defding her late father for a crime he did not commit. While leaving the prison court after a successful trial, Ye-sung notices a balloon caught on barbed wire and reminisces about the past.
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Back in 1997, 6-year-old Ye-sung and her father, Yong-go (who is mtally disabled), stare into a store window admiring a Sailor Moon backpack. Yong-gu promises to buy Ye-sung the backpack wh he gets paid. However, the police commissioner and his daughter purchased it before Yong-gu. Wh Yong-gu rushes in to grab the backpack, he is assaulted by the police commissioner and kicked out of the store. After the incidt, the two return home without the bag, slightly battered, but in high spirits. The next day, after work, the commissioner’s daughter spots Yong-gu and tries to show him another store selling the same backpack. In an unfortunate accidt, the little girl slips running on the market’s icy pavemt and a brick drops on her head, killing her. Yong-gu is arrested for rape and murder after his futile attempts at CPR are misconstrued by a female bystander.
Yong-gu is st to prison, where he shares a jail cell (titled Room 7) with five other inmates, all who initially dislike him for his falsely accused crime and mtal disability. One day, Yong-gu saves the life of his cellmate and prison gang leader, So Yang-ho, from being stabbed by a rival prison gang leader. Touched at this, Yang-ho th offers to help Yong-gu in any way he can to return the favor. Yong-gu tells Yang-ho that he wants to see his daughter Ye-sung. The inmates successfully smuggle Ye-sung into the prison wh her choir visits the prison for a performance. Ye-sung is introduced to her dad’s cell mates and manages to stay for a night, but is inadverttly found by the ward. Evtually, the ward realises that Yong-gu is not the assailant of the girl after Yong-gu saves him from an attempted arson, and allows Ye-sung to visit Yong-gu everyday after school.
Before the trial takes place, Yong-gu is trained by the Room 7 inmates on how to answer pottial prosecution questions and he becomes proficit in answering them. Unfortunately, the commissioner beats Yong-gu before the trial in a fit of rage, threating to kill his daughter if he does not confess. Left with no other choice, Yong-gu sacrifices himself by lying that he killed the commissioner's daughter to protect Ye-sung. Yong-gu is th stced to death and the execution date is scheduled for December 23, which happs to fall on Ye-sung's birthday. Feeling sorry for Yong-gu, the inmates decide to build a hot air balloon for Yong-gu to escape. During a prison concert, the inmates sd Yong-gu and Ye-sung on the balloon while the guards pretd to be overwhelmed, but the balloon's rope is caught by barbed wire. On the day of Yong-gu's execution, the inmates and Yong-gu celebrate Ye-sung's birthday before he is executed.
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In court 16 years later (in the prest), Ye-sung, the prison ward and the Room 7 inmates all attd Yong-gu's trial to prove his innocce. The judge exonerates Yong-gu by overturning the previous verdict and granting him a posthumous acquittal, as well as a court order to re-investigate the girl's death, to the joy of the former Room 7 inmates, the ward, and tearful Ye-sung. The sce th returns to the beginning of the film, where Ye-sung has a vision of Yong-gu and her younger self on the hot air balloon waving goodbye. She tearfully says goodbye to her father as the balloon flies away.
The film took 4.6 million admissions (the equivalt of more than US$30 million) in its first two weeks due to strong word of mouth. Despite the release of The Berlin File, it drew in 15% more audice members on its third week, with seat booking at 75.8%.
32 days after its release, it became only the eighth film in Korean cinema history to break the 10 million mark in ticket sales.
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This was especially notable since Miracle in Cell No. 7 had a modest budget with a break-ev point of 1.7 million admissions, making its evtual profit the highest among the films that reached 10 million.
On March 15, 2013, 52 days after its release, ticket sales reached 12.32 million, making it the sevth highest grossing Korean film of all time.
Analysts say among the reasons for its success was the long lunar new year holiday and families going to see the film in groups. The film proved to be especially popular among middle-aged and elderly Koreans.
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Kross Pictures to produce the official Hindi remake of the movie in collaboration with Indian Film Studios and was directed by Umesh Shukla.
It was also adapted in 2019 in Turkey as 7. Koğuştaki Mucize starring Aras Bulut İynemli in the lead role. This is an tirely dramatic interpretation and adds several story elemts and characters. The film was also adapted in the Philippines with the same title, starring Aga Muhlach, Bela Padilla and Xia Vigor.
This was especially notable since Miracle in Cell No. 7 had a modest budget with a break-ev point of 1.7 million admissions, making its evtual profit the highest among the films that reached 10 million.
On March 15, 2013, 52 days after its release, ticket sales reached 12.32 million, making it the sevth highest grossing Korean film of all time.
Analysts say among the reasons for its success was the long lunar new year holiday and families going to see the film in groups. The film proved to be especially popular among middle-aged and elderly Koreans.
Yesasia: Miracle In Cell No.7 (dvd) (malaysia Version) Dvd
Kross Pictures to produce the official Hindi remake of the movie in collaboration with Indian Film Studios and was directed by Umesh Shukla.
It was also adapted in 2019 in Turkey as 7. Koğuştaki Mucize starring Aras Bulut İynemli in the lead role. This is an tirely dramatic interpretation and adds several story elemts and characters. The film was also adapted in the Philippines with the same title, starring Aga Muhlach, Bela Padilla and Xia Vigor.
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